An anti-Semitic letter was allegedly signed by group of some 500 "Orthodox Christian patriotic" people, as the authors wanted to be called, including 20 members of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. The lengthy document was published on the Web site of a small fringe newspaper, Rus Pravoslavnaya, or Orthodox Russia, and demanded that the prosecutor general consider imposing a ban on Judaism and Jewish community institutions in Russia, claiming they are extremist and anti-Christian.